[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#452560: octave2.9: behaviour of clear not entirely documented

[Francesco Potorti`]

Package: octave2.9
Version: 1:2.9.14-1
Severity: minor

Both Octave 2.1 and Octave 2.9 should document the behaviour of
"clear all":

octave> global a=2
octave> a
a =  2
octave> clear
octave> a
error: `a' undefined near line 11 column 1
octave> global a=3
octave> a
a =  2
octave> clear all
octave> a
error: `a' undefined near line 14 column 1
octave> global a=3
octave> a
a =  3

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave2.9 depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack 3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so. 3.0.20000531a-6.1 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                  2.6.1-1           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.17.1-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3 [fftw3]     3.1.2-3           library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libg2c0                1:3.4.6-6         Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
ii  libgcc1                1:4.2.2-3         GCC support library
ii  libglpk0               4.23-1            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 1.6.5-5+b1        Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20071013-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.3-2             Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-7          calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.2.2-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse         3.0.0-7           collection of libraries for comput
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3 1.2-8             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  texinfo                4.8.dfsg.1-6      Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave2.9 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.2-1    A command-line driven interactive 

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